Shoulder-presser form.



PATENTED SEPT. 1, 1908.

J. M. STEIN. SHOULDER PRESSER FORM.

APPLICATION II LED MAR.4, 1908.

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1 JACOB M. STEIN, or WASHINGTON, DISTRICT or COLUMBIA.

SHOULDER-PRESSER FORM.

Application filed March 4,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 1, 1908.

1908. Serial N0. 419,200.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J ACOB M. STEIN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Washington, District of Columbia, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Shoulder-Presser Forms, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to shoulder presser forms.

One object of the invention is to provide a device of the nature statedembodying such characteristics that the pressing of the shoulderportions of garments is expedited and the symmetry and uniformity of thegarment insured.

Another object of the invention resides in the provision of a shoulderpresser form adapted to insure the proper shaping of each shoulderexpeditiously without requiring the movement of the garment intodifferent positions upon the form and without regard to the size of thegarment or its form or style.

A further object of the invention resides in the provision of a deviceof the character stated having means associated therewith whereby thegarment may be stretched during the .pressing operation to insure theproduction of a high shouldered garment.

A still further object is to provide a reversible form terminating ateach end in a pressing surface whereby the formation of different shapedshoulders may be formed at opposite ends of the form, each end of thelatter providing either a shoulder or collar ironing surface or both.

It is still further designed to provide a device for pressing garmentswhich embodies in its organization of elements an attaching means, and arocking form supporting means whereby the ends of the form may be raisedand lowered alternately and the form held against displacement duringsuch movement; there being means provided to prevent accidental backwardmovement of the form during its rocking movement and there also be ingmeans to hold the garment during operation of the form to stretch thegarment during the pressing operation and thereby insure proper shapingof the garment.

With the above and other objects in view, the present invention consistsin the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fullydescribed, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularlypointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes maybe made in the form, proportion, size and minor details withoutdeparting from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of theinvention.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a side elevation of the invention. Fig. 2is a top' plan view. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 4 isa transverse sectional view. Fig. 5 is an underneath perspective view ofthe presser form detached from its supporting and securing elements.Fig. 6 is a top plan view with the presser form removed. Fig. 7 is asectional view through the sup porting means. Fig. 8 is a side elevationof another character of means for supporting the presser form.

Referring now more particularly to the accompanying drawings, thecharacter A indicates one variety of my improved shoulder presser formwhich terminates at its ends in shoulder pressing surfaces 2 and 3, theend 2 being adapted to provide-high shoulders of the civilian varietyand the end 3 adapted to provide shoulders of the military type. When ashoulder is being pressed upon the end 2, the end 3 serves as a collarironing surface, the top of the form between said ends being concave toreceive the depression of the garment between the shoulder and collar.When the shoulder is being pressed upon the military end 3, the end 2serves as a collar ironing surface. Thus each end of the form has thefunction of providing a combined shoulder and collar ironing surface ateach end.

The bottom of the form A is inclined from its center, as shown, and atthis intermediate point of the bottom of the form A there is providedadepression 4 arranged centrally of which is a socket 5 into which lead-longitudinally of the form the inclined grooves 6, there beingdiagonally disposed locking recesses 7 formed in the depression andchannels 8 formed in the under face of the form upon opposite sides ofsaid depression 4 and in alinement with said inclined grooves 6, saidchannels being deeper near the depression 4 than at their outer ends andterminating short of the extremities of the form.

As premised in the foregoing my improved presser form has a rockingmovement and to insure this rocking movement I mount the same upon apeculiar form of rocking means including a base plate 9 adapted to fitin the depression 4 of the form and provided with a central stud 10adapted to project into the aforesaid socket 5. This plate 9 is alsopro- 1 vided with a locking projection 11 adapted for interchangeableengagement in the looking recesses 7 according to the position of theform up on its supporting means. Depending from the plate 9 are spacedears 12, which, if desired, may be formed separate from the plate 9 andsecured'thereto by means of suitable elements 13. In any event the ears12 are perforated for a purpose presently explained. This plate has agroove 15 formed in its face opposite that from which the stud 10projects, and in this groove at one end thereof there is formed a stud16, there being a slot 17 formed in said plate 9 and leading from theperiphery thereof in alinement with said groove 15, the groove 15, stud16, and slot 17 being formed for a purpose presently explained.

To mount the form and its rocking means in operative position, I providea suitable attaching means, which may include a clamping bracket 18having a cooperating clamping screw 19 cooperating therewith, wherebythe attaching means may be secured upon a suitable base 20, said bracket18 having an arm 20projecting therefrom and terminating in an upwardlydirected toothed rack 21 adapted to work through said slot 17 of thesupporting plate 9 and fit interchangeably in the aforesaid inclinedgrooves 6 of the form according to the disposition of the form upon itssupporting means. This bracket also has a pair of upstanding perforatedears 22, which are adapted to fit within the space between the aforesaidears 12 of the form supporting means and whose perforations are adaptedto aline to receive the pivot pin 23, by which the supporting means ispivotally mounted for rocking movement, one of said ears 22havingaprojection 24 for engagement with the top of the bracket 18tolimit the rocking movement of the form in one direction, the formbeing limited in its rocking movement in the opposite direction byvirtue of the extremity of the extension 21 of the arm 20 engaging saidstud 10.

When the form is being rocked it is not absolutely necessary, but it ispreferred, that it rock step by step, and it is for this purpose that Iprovide the toothed extension 21 of the arm 20, which is adapted tocooperate with the slightly curved elongated dog 25 whose body isrovided with spaced slots 26 to embrace and slide upon the pins 27 ofthe plate 9, whereby the dog may have sliding movement interchangeablyin the channels 8 of the form according to the position of the form, itbeing understood that the latter is reversible and that to reverse it,it is simply necessary to lift it off of the stud 10 and replace it inreversed position. The inner end of this dog 25 is preferably beveled,as indicated at 28 for engagement with the teeth of the extension 21 ofthe arm 20, and this beveled inner end is held normally in engagementwith said toothed rack by Virtue of a helical or other spring 29 whichfits in the aforesaid groove 15 of the plate 9 and which has one endfitted over the stud 16 of said groove 15 and its opposite end fittedover a pin 30 ofxthe dog, all as clearly shown in the accompanyingdrawings. Byvirtue of the slots 26 in the body of the dog, an outwardsliding movement of the dog is permitted to disengage its inner end fromsaid rack when desired. 6

Secured to the base 20 by means of a plate 31 or in any other suitablemanner, is an arm 32 having an upwardly directed part 33 whichterminates in' an inwardly directed clamp supporting part 34 which hasone end twisted to provide a clamping element 35 adapted to cooperatewith a clamping element 36 to engage the arm-pit of the garment and holdthe latter during operation of the form A to permit of a stretching ofthe garment during the pressing operation. The clamping element 36 isformed at one end of a lever 37 pivoted at 38 upon the arm 34 and alsocarrying a pivoted locking dog 39 adapt ed to engage the teeth 40 at theend of the raised portion 41 of the arm 34, as shown, to hold theclamping elements 35 and 36 tightly in engagement with the garment, andif desired these clamping elements 35 and 36 may be provided with rubberor other sleeves (not shown) to reduce friction between the clampingelements and the garment during the stretching operation. 'However, inthis particular instance, it will be understood that any desired form ofgarment or arm-pit holding means may be employed in lieu of the meansjust described.

' From the foregoing, it will be understood that I provide a reversibleshoulder pressing .form mounted upon a suitable rocking support withwhich it has detachable engagement so that the rocking support need notbe disengaged from the attaching means but, whereby to reverse the form,it is simply necessary to lift the form to disengage the stud 10 of thesupporting means from the socket 5 of the form and place thecorresponding end of the form in position for pressing purposes.

It is my intention to claim in this case a form, whether reversible ornot which is mounted upon a rocking support, and it is also my intentionto claim a particular form independent of any means of mounting thesame, there being shown in Fig. 8 of the accompanying drawings, a formwhich has a stationary mounting,- that is, secured in place by means ofa suitable bracket 42 to a suit able base 43.

In practice, the garment is placed upon the form, as shown in Fig. 1 andthe arm-pit engaged by the arm-pit or garment holding means. A dampcloth is then placed over the shoulder and a heated iron applied to thedamp cloth to press the shoulder. Pressure is brought to bear upon theinner end of the form by the operator either with his free hand or by.pressure upon the inner end of the form with the iron, resulting in theinner end of the form moving downwardly and the outer end thereof movingupwardly to stretch the garment between the outer end of the form andthe garment holding means, the engagement of the dog 25 with the toothedrack 21 of the arm 20 permitting of the step by step rocking movementand preventing accidental backward movement of the form. Thus thegarment may be ironed and stretched upon the one form and withoutnecessarily shifting the garment from one side of the form to the otherside thereof, as is customary in the use of the well known presser orbosom board. The shoulder is pressed at the outer end of the form andthe collar may be pressed upon the inner end thereof. When the garmentis removed from the form for the pressing of the opposite shoulder, itis simply necessary to pul upon the dog 25 and force the form to itsinitial position.

-\Nhen it is desired to produce the military effect to shoulders, it issimply necessary to lift the form from its supporting means and reversethe positions of the shoulder ends from that shown in the drawings, asshould now be well understood.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. Areversible shoulder presser form terminating at each end in a combinedshoulder and collar pressing surface.

2. A reversible shoulder presser form embodying a block terminating ateach end in a shoulder pressing surface, each end having a differentformation, whereby shoulders of different contours may be formed.

3. A shoulder presser form terminating at each end in a shoulderpressing surface, and a rocking support for the form.

4. A reversible shoulder presser form terminating at each end in ashoulder pressing surface, each end having a different formation,whereby shoulders of different contours may be formed, the form havingrecesses therein, and a supporting means for the form including aprojection for interchangeable engagement in said recesses.

5. A shoulder presser form terminating at each end in a shoulderpressing surface, the top of the form intermediate the ends beingconcave, and a supporting means constructed and arranged whereby theopposite shoulder pressing surfaces may be raised and loweredalternately.

6. A reversible shoulder presser form terminating at each end in acombined shoulder and collar ironing surface, and also having a socketand locking recesses in its under face, and a rocking supporting meansincluding a stud forinsertion in said socket and a locking projectionfor interchangeable engagement in said recesses.

7. A reversible shoulder presser form and a rocking supporting plate forthe form.

8. A reversible shoulder presser form and a rocking supporting platedetachably se cured to the form intermediate the ends of the latter.

9. In a device of the character described, a reversible form having asocket in its bottom intermediate its ends and also having a recess uponeach side of the socket and also provided with grooves leading into saidsocket, and with channels extending from said grooves toward theopposite ends of the form, a supporting plate having a central stud forengagement in said socket and also having a locking projection forengagement in said recesses interchangeably to lock the form againstrotation, said plate also having a slot, a groove and depending ears,said groove having a stud at one end, an attaching means having ears, apivot pin passed through the ears of said plate and the attaching means,said attaching means also having an arm working through the slot of saidplate and projecting interchangeably in the said grooves of the form andprovided with a toothed face, a locking dog slid ably mounted upon theaforesaid. plate and disposed interchangeably in said channels of theform and having its inner end beveled to engage said teeth, said dogalso having a pin extending into the groove of said late, and a springdisposed in the groove of the plate and having connection at itsopposite ends with said stud and the last mentioned pin to hold the dognormally in engagement with the teeth of said arm.

10. In a device of the character described, a reversible form having asocket in its bottom, a recess upon each side of the socket and alsohaving grooves leading into said socket with channels extending fromsaid grooves toward opposite ends of the form, a form supporting platehaving a stud for removable engagement in said socket and also having alocking projection for engagement in said recesses interchangeably tolock the form against rotation, said plate also having a slot, a grooveand depending ears detachably secured thereto, said groove having a studat one end, an attaching means having ears, a pivot pin passed throughthe ears of said plate and the attaching means, said attaching meansalso having an arm provided with a toothed extension working throughsaid slot of said plate and projecting interchangeably into the groovesof the form, one of the ears of said plate having a projection to limitthe movement of the supporting plate in one direction and the extremityof the toothed extension of said arm engaging said stud of the plate tolimit the movement of said plate in the other direction, a locking dogslidably mounted upon the aforesaid plate and disposed interchangeablyin said channels of the form and having its inner end beveled to engagesaid teeth, said dog also having a pin extending into the groove of saidplate, and a spring disposed in the groove of the plate and havingconnection at its opposite ends with said stud and the last mentionedpin to hold the dog normally in engagement with the teeth of saidextension of the arm of the attaching means.

11. In a reversible shoulder presserform terminating at each end in ashoulder ironing isurface, one ironing surface serving as a colar usedfor shoulder ironing purposes, a rocking supporting means upon which theform is ironing surface when the opposite end is 1 removably mounted,means permitting of a step by step rocking movement of said formsupporting means, rotation of the form.

12. In a reversible shoulder presser form, a rocking supporting meansupon which the form is removably mounted to effect an alternate raisingand lowering of the ends of the 2 form, and attaching means coupled tothe rocking supporting means.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

I JACOB M. STEIN.

Witnesses:

I-I. CLIFFORD BANGS, L. F. HERBERT.

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